I pay nearly $1500 A WEEK in income tax and I'd like to know what the hell our Government thinks it's doing by sitting idly by and saying "Geez, the Chinese Government is attacking our Corporate Citizens and by proxy, our Economic Security and the future Security of our entire Nation -- that's too bad"
Why isn't this seen as a DECLARATION OF WAR? We make an international incident of locking up Kim Dot Com for some file sharing BUT DO NOTHING while the Chinese Government assails our Corporations with a literal Army of Hackers.
Why are we not destroying this army of hackers, why are we not taking down the Chinese Internet Infrastructure or putting up a great firewall around China in retribution for this behavior.
Are we so badly owned that we can not afford to do a thing? Is this how much we fear our Chinese masters?
We had better either take down the US Flag and start flying the Red flag of China or we had better hit them hard and without mercy as we would anyone who would harm Americans.
Because the CEOs would have a fit! Our economy would collapse and Apple would be out of business.
The CEOs even admittingly hand over IP when asked. They do not care. They do so because the corrupt official may have important contacts to help the company setup shop in return. Also the lure of cheap labor and a MUCH bigger market than the US is too much to ignore. Wall Street loves and will even give a raise to such CEOs who hand out their IP.
It is disgusting but many are annoyed at first but do not care. Mitt Romney even mentions this and how corporations are asked at point blank... hand it over or we wont let you enter our market... etc.
I am one of those types who has a BA in business and going for another one in I.T.
I agree with you and figured if I could make great cases for ROI, risk analysis, and aligning business processes I will do fairly well. In your case about client-facing servers yes it would be important if your customers can not get a hold of you or if the CEO is bidding on a contract with some competitors and time is important.
In a risk equation I would show it but depends on the company. My example of someone owning a fish stick company I agree it may not be as important versus a financial institution where things are critical due at deadlines are heavy penalties and violations kick in.
Marketers and phones drive sales and customer service service so customers keep coming back.
IT doesn't drive anything. It is important like electricity but not as important as anything else. It needs to be cut unless you are an IT company where your very business processes require heavy duty uptime, great DBAs, and sonet etc.
I am just the messenger and hate this but IT is matured much like the demand for a HUGE R&D into steam engines and electrical factories 150 years ago. 19th century technology revolutionized the industry. Mechanical engineers and mechanics are still used today. Adjusted for inflation do they get what they were paid 150 years ago? Hell NO. Not even close. It has matured.
IT is about done and now is the time to cut costs and focus on efficiency and logistics. This is why the demand for CPA financial gurus and MBAs are going up through the roof. Outsourcing is the newest rage in a global economy. You can't fight it. Times change.
I worked for a project at a famous door company. Let me tell you their mechanical engineers were paid good because they needed them. Elsewhere not so much. It is the same concept.
If so you are about ready to get hit with your own deep recession due to Greece and Italy.
In such a situation it is horrible, but people would do and yourself included if you are in that horrible state. It is not our fucked up country but simple economics. Very low demand and a high competition gives strength to the employer to be picky.
It is the same in other industries as well and other professions. We are not alone.
My example including a financial analyst working for a bank vs a regular company. If you are a lawyer you can make a TON MORE money and be valued if you are part of the bottom line in a law firm instead of a regular office latchkey in a fortune 1000 company.
This cost cutting emphasis is the new rage as CFOs and not product engineers are becoming the next wave of CEOs. This is why Apple is doing so well, while their rivals race towards the bottom etc.
Everyone who is not part of the bottom line directly is being understaffed and underpaid. Go join a.com or software company and you will be respected and paid more. It would not surprise me if they under pay the lawyers and accountants in these companies though;-)
Is electricity a cost or an asset? It is a cost. Yes, without it you can't do much but cheap electricity is no different than expensive electricity. Why pay? The less electricity you need the less valuable it is.
Now if you were Amazon and needed your own hydroelectric plant for your cloud then it is more valuable and it is more of an asset and it would even make you money bordering a profit center.
If you work for a company making fish sticks (example), having contractors part time during the harvest and maybe just the bare minimum to survive for the rest of year freezing and packaging your product makes business sense. Investing in good distribution and sales teams to sell to grocery stores are far more important. maybe using expensive freezers that do not break. But I.T.? What value does that provide to the customer? Zero. They are paying for fish sticks. Not for Windows 7 deployments and upgrading to IE 8. So staying with IE 6 and XP for them gives the CFO and CEO a bonus as Wall Street agrees with this.
Work at Microsoft however, and you will get paid very handsomely if you make great contributions to the bottom line. Sorry, but I only am the messenger here. The.com days are over and its time to move on. Go work in an I.T. company or even a contracting company doing consulting if you have your experience and you will be paid well. Otherwise you are a cost there to make sure nothing breaks. Unless you can think of a magical way companies can increase their sales or cut their cost from your ideas? Have any?
They will downright tell you that if you want to operate in our country you need to give us some of our IP. If it is very valuable maybe in return we can make a deal and have our government even buy your products.
Mitt Romney condemned this as it is a known practice. I assume by refusing they will hack into your network anyway to get it. You might as well voluntarily share and a favor from some of these corrupt officials can go a very long way for your company as they have many connections in the industry over there.
Many companies do not care. They increase in sales and cost savings from cheap labor are well worth the effort to help boost its shareprice and give the CEO and CFO a nice fat bonus they desire. Presidents who care about the company are old school and reserved for private companies.
Which would you maximize and which would you minimize? A cost center or a profit center? That is business 101.
I always advice IT people to work in a technology company. Otherwise you will always be undervalued and underpaid. Same is true if you are a financial wizard. You can make a good upper middle class salary at a regular company. However, working at a bank you will be a multi millionaire instead with that background because you add value and contribution to your company MUCH more.
In the past we were once valued as profit centers and assets as great productivity gains were realized switching to computers then desktops, then spreadsheets, email, and so on and so on. Today, a nerd is not someone who can turn on a PC and use a formula in a spreadsheet. Everyone can do this. Therefore, we do not offer anything of important value except when something blows up.
Anyway the risk is well worth the effort of massively increased sales and low cost labor. As long as the share price goes up and the CFO and CEO can get their bonuses from the cost savings and profit center increases then all is good even if it does get hacked.
If you must have java for things like Eclipse or intranets like Kronos at work just disable it in your browser.
FF lets you disable the plugins.
IE goes a step farther. it lets you disable it in the internet zone under security settings and will enable Java in the intranet zone for your crappy web apps. If your users need java for one site just build a custom zone for that domain with java. Admins at work always forget to do this.
Chrome does not even support java so your safe. Thays good because much software is incompatible with java7 which is more secure.
Sadly I have not usedjava on the web in 10 years. No one uses it anymore for applets. HTML 5 will replace all its promises
The issue is its users *ahem* corporate america *ahem* who still use 10 year old operating systems. You know the ones who say on slashdot its fine so why upgrade?
Then get all mad that the OS is insecure when it was released in 2001.
Windows 7 has DEP, ASLR, and sandboxing in IE 8/IE 9. Firefox does not even support sandboxing yet which is why I quit using it a year ago when 4.0 came out. In many ways Windows 7 is the most secure OS out there today. If you bash it try something recent.... PS in 2001 Linux required you to be root in order to use your modem to dial into the internet to use Netscape. Gee, that is not a security threat. LOL.
I did not know as much about computers then as today but I knew that was definitely not right and bad. Linux has not done that in 10 years, but since you are comparing a 10 year old version of Windows I will compare it to a version of Linux from that time frame.
Just because you do not like a company's products does not mean you can't applaud their actions or maybe even a product that doesn't suck made by them?
I do not know anyone who likes all of Microsofts products. Even Windows fanboys hate older IE or Exchange.
I disliked MS greatly a decade ago and viewed them as dangerous. IE 6 scared the crap out of me and seeing what it would do to interopability of CSS standards. I even wished Apple would have won over Windows a decade ago too.... fast forward today and we see how evil Apple is. MS never was that insane with suing competitors and taking products off of the market. Google is already introducing quirks in javascript and adding their own web standards and in no doubt in my mind would turn Chrome into their IE 6 with scripting and apis instead of CSS subversion.
Every company is only evil if there is no competition. MS today doesn't scare me and I do like some of their products. I am typing this on Chrome, but IE 9 is a decent browser and nothing like 6 and I do like Excel, Powerpoint, and.NET.
You can still hate the company but love some of their products or applaud their actions when they are no longer a monopoly force to be reckoned with.
Many people in America used to share your concern about self respect and making the amount of money they did in 2006.
If you have been unemployed for a long time then it makes beneficial sense to be happy to have any job even if it is McDonalds. Wahoo I have a job! Your wife will force you to take it or leave and the bank or student loan corporations do not give a shit about you. They want your money.
Being a disposable employee is the new trend. In the past people would hire an engineer. Today they call a temp agency for an engineer to design something and then leave when it is finished. HUGE cost savings.
In a job market like today the employer has the ball. It is the same as when we had the ball in 1999. Employers are looking for the best deals, lowest wages, and if you do not have the mentality of any job is better than no job, someone else will and this includes very skilled and experienced workers too who are desperate and happy to take whatever is available.
People who have been out of work for awhile who are skilled, but are unhirable due to the gap will gladly give you their facebook password.
In this job market why not?
If you work in HR and the employee needs to be fired you need to CYA. Your excuse could be I looked at his facebook and did not see anything related to X etc.
In a depression or a great recession like this one you can get great talent 30 - 40% below market value. The risk is they may have been out of work for awhile and lost some of their freshness.
It sucks but there is great deflationary pressures to reduce costs thanks to outsourcing and h1b1 and employers are used to very low wages and employees are adjusting by working more hours for less and getting a 2nd job to have the same lifestyle instead.
In a good economy you are right. A good employee will simply refuse to work for less as another office down the street will offer more money.
Right now, those who have been laid off are in a double whammy and many I know who used to make $90,000 a year gladly will work for $35,000 after losing everything they had and moving into their parents.
HR has been brainwashed to look for reasons, infact any reason not to hire someone.
They are obsessed with liabilities and getting shit upon by hiring the wrong person.
Also HR has been empowered by the economy to do this. Since 2009 they can simply state whatever the requirements are and they still get 100 resumes. So why not? HR gets a pat on the back and assume this is the norm and I bet some of these women even find it gratifying with the power to be b*tches.
I am the one who made the obvious links here on slashdot that you look unprofessional by using LibreOffice and sending PDFs to HR. I was not trying to start a flame war or be all pro MS fanboy-ism, but just stating how business sees the world without the geek glasses.
If the economy recovers to normal HR will then be more hard pressed to find people with the right capabilities to do a job, rather than looking for flaws and preventing managers from talking to the biggest sets of people.
It is a terrible time to be an employee or job applicant indeed.
It is not like there are millions of unemployed people who are getting foreclosed on, divorced, and their kids are facing starvation who have the same skills and experience you have for that particular job.
God help you if you are one of them which is very common today. If that is the case you better bend over and take it like a man if you have a wife and kids before they leave you!
It is not just welfare moms and druggies with GEDs who live like this today. In Florida I have seen software engineer positions that state $13/hr and require 5 years experience and a computer science degree. There are hundreds of desperate people to take them.
Once one employer does, all of them do. After that what choice do you have? If you do not take it they can find someone else who will and if this is your only chance for a job with less pay than your old one it is that or Walmart. Take your pick?
Really easy for you to say when you have not been on unemployment for over a year, your wife is about ready to leave you, your house is in foreclosure, repo guys are going to come take your car away, and the collection agencies you around the clock demanding you pay them back and harassing your family members.
In such a scenario is unfortunately, very typical in this economy for those who got laid off at the absolute worst time.
What are you going to do? So no sir Mr. potential boss. You can kiss my ass. My wife will gladly accept this, and my kids really didn't need to be fed anyway etc.
You will do it and not only will you bend over, but you will be happy with no lube and have a big smile on your face. Anything is better than not working right?
Employers are taking advantage of people in a bad situation and it is disgusting. I know I am an evil socialist for dare saying the government get involved, but this is where it is a good case to do so. This is not 1999 anymore where employers compete with you if have any reasonable talent. Today, they do not care and can under pay, overwork, and make unreasonable demands because their competitors are doing it and why not?
You are aware people make less money now than 10 years ago. If you make $35000 a 27 inch monitor is expensive. Add $80000 in student loans 700 a month for gas and 900 a month for rent and a phone or a clunker used computer is your best bet
Recovered my fucking ass. With so many of us long term unemployed I can see people desperate for this.
If someone tried this on us back in 1999, no words would be said. Just a grin and a walk out the door. If you have an angry wife who is about 1 week before divorcing you, a kid who is hungy, credit collections agencies calling you every other hour you would DO ANYTHING to make them go away to work again.
Part of me thinks this is silly. The conservative part of me thinks another protection law will encourage employers not to hire, overwork the ones they have, and go to India instead where they will be happy to be abused like this and wont sue.
I would give such an employer a little surprise to make them think twice next time.:-)
Sure I will just have a fake facebook. Pick of me on my user icon just like my real one. Give them the password and as soon as they log in have a very large zoomed in pic of the bloody ass in GOATSE as my post.
With white text caption saying you violated my rights I figured I would violate yours. Enjoy your lunch hour... come on guys. Be creative
It is not a zealotry or move on their own self interest not to implement h.264.
By agreeing to use it, they made FF a second class citizen in every non Windows 7(except starter edition) and MacOSX platform. The licensing is not only non free but requires drm support and a whole bunch of other nasties and ruins the spirit of an open world wide web that everyone regardless of platform and ideals uses.
For FF to be free it has to rely on the operating system and its DRM methods. I would not be surprised if MS missed it up to make IE look better in HD content like disable hardware acceleration for non IE browsers.
Its good to see Mozilla get with the times. But Mozilla and Google had great reason not to like it nor support it.
Notice on Youtube the lower income looking people in a trailer typically we be on a phone commenting on showing a friend a song or video clip? Same is true with minorities who are statistically poorer.
Rich people own desktops and some offices. In places like India more people go on the web with phones than desktops. This trend will continue as costs go down. Phones will be the prefered method for teenage girls to communicate and use the web even if they have a computer at home for homework.
It is not a niche and there are probably more phones than desktops. In 3 years there will be more tablets and smart phones than laptops and desktops.
The issue with H.264 compared to MPEG2 are 1. It is licensed by a MPAA shell company/subsidiary 2. The terms to license it are much more strict than just pay us $2.00 for every product for example 3. License requires DRM to be implemented with a straight handshaked path all the way from the video card to the output device 4. Netflix, Apple, and MS backed it out of greed to sell DRM movies and videos 5. it kills the spirit of the world wide web to even dare suggest it as a standard 6. Hurts internet users in 3rd world countries with phone prices and those who use Windows 7 Starter Edition
The real reason why IE 9 is not available for XP? It can't meet the licensing requirements for h.264 therefore not compatible iwth html 5 anyway legally as the explorer.exe does not support the DRM of Aero. Technically legal, but not kosher wise without civil penalties. Mozilla and Google did not want to treat Linux and XP users as second class citizens and tried to fight it. Google kept h.264 for Android and Chrome and now it is too late.
It also is annoying for third world countries and some netbook owners with starter editions of Windows 7 who do not have these codecs. Many people in places like India use phones without these codecs to cut down on price. The internet is rapidly growing in these countries and h.264 is a thorn due to the cost. True some do not support mpeg 2 anyway, but mpeg 2 is not an offical html standard.
I could be wrong with the exact requirements for the implemention of DRM to my points so any geeks can correct me if I am wrong? But, I do not feel that it is fair not to mention I hated Flash for turning web development into a win32 only (and mac) platform with proprietary tools because no FOSS project can get permission from the MPAA cartel to run h.264.
However, flash is more evil I guess and it is time to let my anti h.264 rant go. I guess Linux users will have to download codecs on various websites.At least BSD users can visit places like youtube as more and more videos now have Html 5 counterparts.
Women multitask much more efficiently than men and can work and watch kids at the same time and still keep a train of thought. We are not wired to do that. They do not get overwhelmed either and it is still relax time in that environment and many who do not get it think men are lazy.
My ex was pissed when I needed my own time or when I needed to look for a higher paying job. No 20 minutes is not sufficient as I need 3 more hours at least when I get home from work from my regular job (when I was not working at home).
Kids are kids and need parental watching depending on their age. If they are too young for preschool yes they need 24x7 supervision. If you can't have a baby crying while you are on a conference call or when you need to write a TON of code then it is a problem. Many see it as Oh GREAT I CAN WORK NOW TOO go watch the baby see you later etc.
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I pay nearly $1500 A WEEK in income tax and I'd like to know what the hell our Government thinks it's doing by sitting idly by and saying "Geez, the Chinese Government is attacking our Corporate Citizens and by proxy, our Economic Security and the future Security of our entire Nation -- that's too bad"
Why isn't this seen as a DECLARATION OF WAR? We make an international incident of locking up Kim Dot Com for some file sharing BUT DO NOTHING while the Chinese Government assails our Corporations with a literal Army of Hackers.
Why are we not destroying this army of hackers, why are we not taking down the Chinese Internet Infrastructure or putting up a great firewall around China in retribution for this behavior.
Are we so badly owned that we can not afford to do a thing?
Is this how much we fear our Chinese masters?
We had better either take down the US Flag and start flying the Red flag of China or we had better hit them hard and without mercy as we would anyone who would harm Americans.
Because the CEOs would have a fit! Our economy would collapse and Apple would be out of business.
The CEOs even admittingly hand over IP when asked. They do not care. They do so because the corrupt official may have important contacts to help the company setup shop in return. Also the lure of cheap labor and a MUCH bigger market than the US is too much to ignore. Wall Street loves and will even give a raise to such CEOs who hand out their IP.
It is disgusting but many are annoyed at first but do not care. Mitt Romney even mentions this and how corporations are asked at point blank ... hand it over or we wont let you enter our market ... etc.
I am one of those types who has a BA in business and going for another one in I.T.
I agree with you and figured if I could make great cases for ROI, risk analysis, and aligning business processes I will do fairly well. In your case about client-facing servers yes it would be important if your customers can not get a hold of you or if the CEO is bidding on a contract with some competitors and time is important.
In a risk equation I would show it but depends on the company. My example of someone owning a fish stick company I agree it may not be as important versus a financial institution where things are critical due at deadlines are heavy penalties and violations kick in.
Marketers and phones drive sales and customer service service so customers keep coming back.
IT doesn't drive anything. It is important like electricity but not as important as anything else. It needs to be cut unless you are an IT company where your very business processes require heavy duty uptime, great DBAs, and sonet etc.
I am just the messenger and hate this but IT is matured much like the demand for a HUGE R&D into steam engines and electrical factories 150 years ago. 19th century technology revolutionized the industry. Mechanical engineers and mechanics are still used today. Adjusted for inflation do they get what they were paid 150 years ago? Hell NO. Not even close. It has matured.
IT is about done and now is the time to cut costs and focus on efficiency and logistics. This is why the demand for CPA financial gurus and MBAs are going up through the roof. Outsourcing is the newest rage in a global economy. You can't fight it. Times change.
I worked for a project at a famous door company. Let me tell you their mechanical engineers were paid good because they needed them. Elsewhere not so much. It is the same concept.
Are you European?
If so you are about ready to get hit with your own deep recession due to Greece and Italy.
In such a situation it is horrible, but people would do and yourself included if you are in that horrible state. It is not our fucked up country but simple economics. Very low demand and a high competition gives strength to the employer to be picky.
It is the same in other industries as well and other professions. We are not alone.
My example including a financial analyst working for a bank vs a regular company. If you are a lawyer you can make a TON MORE money and be valued if you are part of the bottom line in a law firm instead of a regular office latchkey in a fortune 1000 company.
This cost cutting emphasis is the new rage as CFOs and not product engineers are becoming the next wave of CEOs. This is why Apple is doing so well, while their rivals race towards the bottom etc.
Everyone who is not part of the bottom line directly is being understaffed and underpaid. Go join a .com or software company and you will be respected and paid more. It would not surprise me if they under pay the lawyers and accountants in these companies though ;-)
Is electricity a cost or an asset? It is a cost. Yes, without it you can't do much but cheap electricity is no different than expensive electricity. Why pay? The less electricity you need the less valuable it is.
Now if you were Amazon and needed your own hydroelectric plant for your cloud then it is more valuable and it is more of an asset and it would even make you money bordering a profit center.
If you work for a company making fish sticks (example), having contractors part time during the harvest and maybe just the bare minimum to survive for the rest of year freezing and packaging your product makes business sense. Investing in good distribution and sales teams to sell to grocery stores are far more important. maybe using expensive freezers that do not break. But I.T.? What value does that provide to the customer? Zero. They are paying for fish sticks. Not for Windows 7 deployments and upgrading to IE 8. So staying with IE 6 and XP for them gives the CFO and CEO a bonus as Wall Street agrees with this.
Work at Microsoft however, and you will get paid very handsomely if you make great contributions to the bottom line. Sorry, but I only am the messenger here. The .com days are over and its time to move on. Go work in an I.T. company or even a contracting company doing consulting if you have your experience and you will be paid well. Otherwise you are a cost there to make sure nothing breaks. Unless you can think of a magical way companies can increase their sales or cut their cost from your ideas? Have any?
They will downright tell you that if you want to operate in our country you need to give us some of our IP. If it is very valuable maybe in return we can make a deal and have our government even buy your products.
Mitt Romney condemned this as it is a known practice. I assume by refusing they will hack into your network anyway to get it. You might as well voluntarily share and a favor from some of these corrupt officials can go a very long way for your company as they have many connections in the industry over there.
Many companies do not care. They increase in sales and cost savings from cheap labor are well worth the effort to help boost its shareprice and give the CEO and CFO a nice fat bonus they desire. Presidents who care about the company are old school and reserved for private companies.
The accountants have a point.
Sales make money. You cost money.
Which would you maximize and which would you minimize? A cost center or a profit center? That is business 101.
I always advice IT people to work in a technology company. Otherwise you will always be undervalued and underpaid. Same is true if you are a financial wizard. You can make a good upper middle class salary at a regular company. However, working at a bank you will be a multi millionaire instead with that background because you add value and contribution to your company MUCH more.
In the past we were once valued as profit centers and assets as great productivity gains were realized switching to computers then desktops, then spreadsheets, email, and so on and so on. Today, a nerd is not someone who can turn on a PC and use a formula in a spreadsheet. Everyone can do this. Therefore, we do not offer anything of important value except when something blows up.
Anyway the risk is well worth the effort of massively increased sales and low cost labor. As long as the share price goes up and the CFO and CEO can get their bonuses from the cost savings and profit center increases then all is good even if it does get hacked.
I say this time and time again.
If you must have java for things like Eclipse or intranets like Kronos at work just disable it in your browser.
FF lets you disable the plugins.
IE goes a step farther. it lets you disable it in the internet zone under security settings and will enable Java in the intranet zone for your crappy web apps. If your users need java for one site just build a custom zone for that domain with java. Admins at work always forget to do this.
Chrome does not even support java so your safe. Thays good because much software is incompatible with java7 which is more secure.
Sadly I have not usedjava on the web in 10 years. No one uses it anymore for applets. HTML 5 will replace all its promises
MS has cleaned up their OS and made it secure.
The issue is its users *ahem* corporate america *ahem* who still use 10 year old operating systems. You know the ones who say on slashdot its fine so why upgrade?
Then get all mad that the OS is insecure when it was released in 2001.
Windows 7 has DEP, ASLR, and sandboxing in IE 8/IE 9. Firefox does not even support sandboxing yet which is why I quit using it a year ago when 4.0 came out. In many ways Windows 7 is the most secure OS out there today. If you bash it try something recent. ... PS in 2001 Linux required you to be root in order to use your modem to dial into the internet to use Netscape. Gee, that is not a security threat. LOL.
I did not know as much about computers then as today but I knew that was definitely not right and bad. Linux has not done that in 10 years, but since you are comparing a 10 year old version of Windows I will compare it to a version of Linux from that time frame.
Just because you do not like a company's products does not mean you can't applaud their actions or maybe even a product that doesn't suck made by them?
I do not know anyone who likes all of Microsofts products. Even Windows fanboys hate older IE or Exchange.
I disliked MS greatly a decade ago and viewed them as dangerous. IE 6 scared the crap out of me and seeing what it would do to interopability of CSS standards. I even wished Apple would have won over Windows a decade ago too. ... fast forward today and we see how evil Apple is. MS never was that insane with suing competitors and taking products off of the market. Google is already introducing quirks in javascript and adding their own web standards and in no doubt in my mind would turn Chrome into their IE 6 with scripting and apis instead of CSS subversion.
Every company is only evil if there is no competition. MS today doesn't scare me and I do like some of their products. I am typing this on Chrome, but IE 9 is a decent browser and nothing like 6 and I do like Excel, Powerpoint, and .NET.
You can still hate the company but love some of their products or applaud their actions when they are no longer a monopoly force to be reckoned with.
Newsflash for you.
Many people in America used to share your concern about self respect and making the amount of money they did in 2006.
If you have been unemployed for a long time then it makes beneficial sense to be happy to have any job even if it is McDonalds. Wahoo I have a job! Your wife will force you to take it or leave and the bank or student loan corporations do not give a shit about you. They want your money.
Being a disposable employee is the new trend. In the past people would hire an engineer. Today they call a temp agency for an engineer to design something and then leave when it is finished. HUGE cost savings.
In a job market like today the employer has the ball. It is the same as when we had the ball in 1999. Employers are looking for the best deals, lowest wages, and if you do not have the mentality of any job is better than no job, someone else will and this includes very skilled and experienced workers too who are desperate and happy to take whatever is available.
People who have been out of work for awhile who are skilled, but are unhirable due to the gap will gladly give you their facebook password.
In this job market why not?
If you work in HR and the employee needs to be fired you need to CYA. Your excuse could be I looked at his facebook and did not see anything related to X etc.
Not the jobs I have seen advertised.
In a depression or a great recession like this one you can get great talent 30 - 40% below market value. The risk is they may have been out of work for awhile and lost some of their freshness.
It sucks but there is great deflationary pressures to reduce costs thanks to outsourcing and h1b1 and employers are used to very low wages and employees are adjusting by working more hours for less and getting a 2nd job to have the same lifestyle instead.
In a good economy you are right. A good employee will simply refuse to work for less as another office down the street will offer more money.
Right now, those who have been laid off are in a double whammy and many I know who used to make $90,000 a year gladly will work for $35,000 after losing everything they had and moving into their parents.
HR has been brainwashed to look for reasons, infact any reason not to hire someone.
They are obsessed with liabilities and getting shit upon by hiring the wrong person.
Also HR has been empowered by the economy to do this. Since 2009 they can simply state whatever the requirements are and they still get 100 resumes. So why not? HR gets a pat on the back and assume this is the norm and I bet some of these women even find it gratifying with the power to be b*tches.
I am the one who made the obvious links here on slashdot that you look unprofessional by using LibreOffice and sending PDFs to HR. I was not trying to start a flame war or be all pro MS fanboy-ism, but just stating how business sees the world without the geek glasses.
If the economy recovers to normal HR will then be more hard pressed to find people with the right capabilities to do a job, rather than looking for flaws and preventing managers from talking to the biggest sets of people.
It is a terrible time to be an employee or job applicant indeed.
So true.
It is not like there are millions of unemployed people who are getting foreclosed on, divorced, and their kids are facing starvation who have the same skills and experience you have for that particular job.
God help you if you are one of them which is very common today. If that is the case you better bend over and take it like a man if you have a wife and kids before they leave you!
It is not just welfare moms and druggies with GEDs who live like this today. In Florida I have seen software engineer positions that state $13/hr and require 5 years experience and a computer science degree. There are hundreds of desperate people to take them.
Once one employer does, all of them do. After that what choice do you have? If you do not take it they can find someone else who will and if this is your only chance for a job with less pay than your old one it is that or Walmart. Take your pick?
Really easy for you to say when you have not been on unemployment for over a year, your wife is about ready to leave you, your house is in foreclosure, repo guys are going to come take your car away, and the collection agencies you around the clock demanding you pay them back and harassing your family members.
In such a scenario is unfortunately, very typical in this economy for those who got laid off at the absolute worst time.
What are you going to do? So no sir Mr. potential boss. You can kiss my ass. My wife will gladly accept this, and my kids really didn't need to be fed anyway etc.
You will do it and not only will you bend over, but you will be happy with no lube and have a big smile on your face. Anything is better than not working right?
Employers are taking advantage of people in a bad situation and it is disgusting. I know I am an evil socialist for dare saying the government get involved, but this is where it is a good case to do so. This is not 1999 anymore where employers compete with you if have any reasonable talent. Today, they do not care and can under pay, overwork, and make unreasonable demands because their competitors are doing it and why not?
After all it is not the resolution but the touch friendliness, that is key.
You are aware people make less money now than 10 years ago. If you make $35000 a 27 inch monitor is expensive. Add $80000 in student loans 700 a month for gas and 900 a month for rent and a phone or a clunker used computer is your best bet
I really hope this recession ends. Soon.
Recovered my fucking ass. With so many of us long term unemployed I can see people desperate for this.
If someone tried this on us back in 1999, no words would be said. Just a grin and a walk out the door. If you have an angry wife who is about 1 week before divorcing you, a kid who is hungy, credit collections agencies calling you every other hour you would DO ANYTHING to make them go away to work again.
Part of me thinks this is silly. The conservative part of me thinks another protection law will encourage employers not to hire, overwork the ones they have, and go to India instead where they will be happy to be abused like this and wont sue.
I would give such an employer a little surprise to make them think twice next time. :-)
Sure I will just have a fake facebook. Pick of me on my user icon just like my real one. Give them the password and as soon as they log in have a very large zoomed in pic of the bloody ass in GOATSE as my post.
With white text caption saying you violated my rights I figured I would violate yours. Enjoy your lunch hour ... come on guys. Be creative
It is not a zealotry or move on their own self interest not to implement h.264.
By agreeing to use it, they made FF a second class citizen in every non Windows 7(except starter edition) and MacOSX platform. The licensing is not only non free but requires drm support and a whole bunch of other nasties and ruins the spirit of an open world wide web that everyone regardless of platform and ideals uses.
For FF to be free it has to rely on the operating system and its DRM methods. I would not be surprised if MS missed it up to make IE look better in HD content like disable hardware acceleration for non IE browsers.
Its good to see Mozilla get with the times. But Mozilla and Google had great reason not to like it nor support it.
Notice on Youtube the lower income looking people in a trailer typically we be on a phone commenting on showing a friend a song or video clip? Same is true with minorities who are statistically poorer.
Rich people own desktops and some offices. In places like India more people go on the web with phones than desktops. This trend will continue as costs go down. Phones will be the prefered method for teenage girls to communicate and use the web even if they have a computer at home for homework.
It is not a niche and there are probably more phones than desktops. In 3 years there will be more tablets and smart phones than laptops and desktops.
The issue with H.264 compared to MPEG2 are
1. It is licensed by a MPAA shell company/subsidiary
2. The terms to license it are much more strict than just pay us $2.00 for every product for example
3. License requires DRM to be implemented with a straight handshaked path all the way from the video card to the output device
4. Netflix, Apple, and MS backed it out of greed to sell DRM movies and videos
5. it kills the spirit of the world wide web to even dare suggest it as a standard
6. Hurts internet users in 3rd world countries with phone prices and those who use Windows 7 Starter Edition
The real reason why IE 9 is not available for XP? It can't meet the licensing requirements for h.264 therefore not compatible iwth html 5 anyway legally as the explorer.exe does not support the DRM of Aero. Technically legal, but not kosher wise without civil penalties. Mozilla and Google did not want to treat Linux and XP users as second class citizens and tried to fight it. Google kept h.264 for Android and Chrome and now it is too late.
It also is annoying for third world countries and some netbook owners with starter editions of Windows 7 who do not have these codecs. Many people in places like India use phones without these codecs to cut down on price. The internet is rapidly growing in these countries and h.264 is a thorn due to the cost. True some do not support mpeg 2 anyway, but mpeg 2 is not an offical html standard.
I could be wrong with the exact requirements for the implemention of DRM to my points so any geeks can correct me if I am wrong? But, I do not feel that it is fair not to mention I hated Flash for turning web development into a win32 only (and mac) platform with proprietary tools because no FOSS project can get permission from the MPAA cartel to run h.264.
However, flash is more evil I guess and it is time to let my anti h.264 rant go. I guess Linux users will have to download codecs on various websites.At least BSD users can visit places like youtube as more and more videos now have Html 5 counterparts.
Women multitask much more efficiently than men and can work and watch kids at the same time and still keep a train of thought. We are not wired to do that. They do not get overwhelmed either and it is still relax time in that environment and many who do not get it think men are lazy.
My ex was pissed when I needed my own time or when I needed to look for a higher paying job. No 20 minutes is not sufficient as I need 3 more hours at least when I get home from work from my regular job (when I was not working at home).
Kids are kids and need parental watching depending on their age. If they are too young for preschool yes they need 24x7 supervision. If you can't have a baby crying while you are on a conference call or when you need to write a TON of code then it is a problem. Many see it as Oh GREAT I CAN WORK NOW TOO go watch the baby see you later etc.